GB2312638A

GB2312638A - Hand held grinding machines

Info

Publication number: GB2312638A
Application number: GB9708624A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Justus Lamprecht; Joao Jorge Bergner
Original assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Current assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Priority date: 1996-05-02
Filing date: 1997-04-28
Publication date: 1997-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 2017-04-28
Also published as: US5888128A; ITMI970946A1; GB2312638B; ITMI970946A0; DE19617478B4; CN1082415C; IT1291640B1; CN1169902A; DE19617478A1; GB9708624D0

Abstract

A hand-held grinding machine has an operating shaft (18) which is driven by an electric motor and is received in two pivot bearings (19a, 19b) fixed to the housing (12). An eccentric peg (20) formed on at the end of the shaft is located in a further pivot bearing (21) held in the tool-holder (22). An imbalance-compensation unit (26) is disposed on the operating shaft (18) in a non-rotatable manner between the two pivot bearings (19a, 19b) and has, for the purpose of achieving extremely low vibration, two imbalance masses (27, 28) of different size which are offset in relation to one another in the axial direction of the operating shaft (18) and are disposed diametrally in relation to one another on the said shaft (18).

Description

2312638 Hand-held gdnding machine

Prior art

The starting point for the invention is a hand-held grinding machine of the type defined in the pre-characterising clause of claim 1.

In a known electric hand-held grinding machine of this type which is constructed as a so-called "delta grinder" (EP 0 610 801 AI), the imbalance-compensation unit consists of an equalising mass which is constructed in such a way that it largely compensates for the imbalance forces arising during the oscillatory motion, which is produced by the eccentric peg, of the tool-holder with the grinding tool. 7 Since, however, the compensation unit does not act directly on the centre of gravity between the pivot bearings, which are fixed to the housing, of the grinding unit consisting of a tool-holder with a grinding tool, but is disposed, for reasons of design, at an axial distance from the said centre of gravity, there again Arises an additional bending moment which makes the imbalance-compensation imperflect. The consequence is undesirable intensified vibration of the oscillating grinder during operation, which the operator is still distinctly conscious of.

Advantages of the invention By contrast the hand-held grinding machine according to the invention has the advantage that it runs with distinctly less vibration as a result of the design development of the compensation unit in accordance with the invention. The reason for this is that the second imbalance mass largely compensates for the moment produced by the first imbalance mass for equalising the imbalance forces 2 from the tool-holder and grinding tool and, because of the equilibrium of moments achieved in this way, the negative influence exerted upon the vibrational behaviour of the hand-held grinding tool by the axial offset of the compensation unit in relation to the centre of gravity of the grinding unit consisting of the tool-bolder and grinding tool is eliminated.

Through the measures set out in the other claims, advantageous further developments of and improvements to the hand-held grinding machine indicated in claim 1 are possible.

A realisation of the compensation unit according to the invention which is simple in terms of design is achieved if, according to a preferred form of embodiment of the invention, the imbalance masses are formed out, at the upper and lower ends of a hollow cylinder, in one piece with the latter as semicircular half-rings with different axial thicImess. The two half-rings extend on mutually averted sides of the hollow cylinder over about half the periphery of the said hollow cylinder in each case.

If under these circumstances, the hollow cylinder is produced with the half-rings, according to an advantageous form of embodiment of the invention, as a one-piece sintered part and pressed onto the operating shaft, the compensation unit can be manufactured mi a particularly favourable manner in terms of cost.

Drawings The invention is explained in greater detail in the following description with the aid of an exemplified embodiment represented in the drawings, in which:

figure 1 shows, 'm partial form, a side view of an electric hand-held 3 grinding machine, partially cut away, figure 2 shows a plan view of an imbalance-compensation unit belonging to the hand-held grinding machine illustrated in figure 1, and figure 3 shows a view of the compensation unit, in the direction of the arrow III in figure 2.

Description of the exemplified embodiment

The hand-guided electric hand-held grinding machine represented in figure 1 in partial fom in side view and partially cut away, is constructed as an oscillating grinder, that is to say specffically in this case as a socalled Melta grinder", which carries a triangular, symmetrical grinding plate as the grinding tool 10. The underside of the grinding plate, which is produced from plastic material, is provided with a hook-and-loop coating 11 for receiving grinding sheets which are not represented. However, the hand-held grinding machine can equally be equipped with a rectangular grinding plate or operated with other grinding tools such as, for example, a flap-type grinding attachment or a grinding tongue or a grinding tube. The hand-held grinding machine may also be an eccentric grinder with a rotating grinding tray.

The hand-held grinding machine possesses a two-shell housing 12 which is assembled from two housm"g shells 121, 122 which meet along a partition line 123 extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing. The housing 12 receives an electric motor 13, of which only the fan 15, which is seated on the output shaft 14, can be seen in figure 1. A sliding switch 16 disposed on the upper side of the 4 housing 12 serves to switch the electric motor 13 on and off. The output shaft 14 drives, via an angular gear unit 17, an operating shaft 18 which is mounted for rotation in two ball bearings 19a and 19b fixed to the housing and protrudes, with an eccentric peg 20, out of the housing 12 on the lower end face of the said housing 12. Seated on the eccentric peg 20 is a tool-holder 22 with a ball bearing 21 pressed into the said tool- holder 22 which, on its underside, receives the plateshaped grinding tool 10 in a non-rotatable and axially non-displaceable manner. The tool- holder 22 and grinding tool 10 are adapted to one another in shape, so that the grinding tool 10 lies flat against the tool-holder 22. The tool- holder 22, which is produced from plastic material, is fixed in position on the housing 12 via a flexible oscillating body 23 and thus secured against rotational entrainment when the eccentric peg 20 rotates. If the electric motor 13 is switched on by means of the sliding switch 16, the said motor drives the operating shaft 18, which rotates about its axis 24, via the angular gear unit 17. The eccentric peg 20, the axis 25 of which is offset, by the size of the eccentric, 'm relation to the axis 24 of the operating shaft 18, performs a circular motion as a result of which the tool-holder 22, which is prevented from rotational entrainment by the flexible oscillating body 23, is set in circulating oscillatory motion.

In order to largely equalise the imbalance which arises during the oscillatory motion of the girmiding uruit consisting of the tool-holder 22 and grinding tool 10 and which leads to considerable vibration of the hand-held grinding machine in the operator's hand, and in order to thereby make the hand-held grinding machine a low-vibration machine, a compensation unit 26 is disposed in a non-rotatable manner on the operating shaft 18, that is to say in the region between the two ball bearings 19a and 19b fixed to the housing. The compensation unit 26 consists of two imbalance masses 27, 28 of different size which are offset in relation to one another in the axial direction of the operating shaft 18 and are disposed diametrally in relation to one another on the said shaft. Under these circumst:ances, the larger imbalance mass 27 is disposed nearer the lower ball bearing 19b, which is fixed to the housing and lies nearer the tool- holder 22. Under these circumstances, the imbalance masses 27, 28 are constructed as semicircular halfrings 30, 31 which are formed on at the upper and lower ends of a hollow cylinder 29 on mutually averted sides of the said cylinder and extend, in each case, over virtually half the periphery of the hollow cylinder. Under these circumstances, the hollow cylinder 29 is preferably produced, with the half-rings 30, 3 1, as a onepiece sintered part and then pressed onto the operating shaft 18.

6 Cl " S 1. Hand-held grinding machine having a housing (12) containing a motor (13), having a tool-holder (22) receiving a grinding tool (10) and having a motor-driven operating shaft (18) which is received mi two pivot bearings (19a, 19b) fixed to the housing and, with an eccentric peg (20) formed on at the end, in a further pivot bearing (2 1) held in the tool-holder (22), and having a compensation unit (26), which is disposed on the operating shaft (18) in a non rotatable manner between the two pivot bearings ( 1 9a, 19b) fixed to the housing, for equalising the imbalance produced by the tool-holder' (22) with the grinding tool (10) during rotation of the operating shaft (18), characterised in that the compensation unit (26) has two imbalance masses (27, 28) of different size which are offset in relation to one another in the axial direction of the operating shaft (18) and are disposed diamen-ally in relation to one another on the said shaft (18).

2. Hand-held grinding machine according to claim 1, characterised in that the larger imbalance mass (27) is disposed near the pivot bearing (19b) which is fixed to the housmig and lies nearer the tool-holder (22).

3. Hand-held giffiding machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterised m that the imbalance masses (27, 28) are formed on, as sermicircular halfrings (30, 3 1), at the upper and lower ends of a hollow cylinder (29) in one piece with the said cylinder and that the said half-rings (30, 3 1) extend, in each case, over virtually half the periphery of the hollow cylinder (29), on mutually averted sides of the said cylinder (29).

4. Hand-held grinding machine according to claim 3, characterised in that the hollow cylinder (29) is produced, with the half-rings (30, 3 1), as a one- 7 piece sintered part and pressed onto the operating shaft 18.

5. A hand-held grinding machine substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.